Up and Running

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

After all, sweat equity can make up for a trim marketing budget, but it would be hard to make up for cuts in product development and customer service without sacrificing customer experience. Focus less on selling your product, and more on establishing a human connection with your network. Knowledge is power.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

And when Jeff Bezos started Amazon in 1994, many people had never even heard of something called the internet. Much has changed since Edison’s day, but sweat equity is still the most effective kind of startup capital. True, your business aspirations may be on a more modest scale than these world-famous brands. Good luck!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2010

The hot term these days is “viral marketing”, meaning we won’t do any marketing, but our product is so great that everyone will know about us anyway by word of mouth and through Internet social networks. Investors expect the founder and other principals to have “skin in the game,” over and above “sweat equity.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 18, 2013

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Both are networks. Marketing is top priority.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 29, 2010

The Internet might be truly global then, but the world of startups still revolves much around Silicon Valley. This tendency to be more outspoken could also be seen in networking and pitching, where there was much less awkwardness than with Europeans. It seems they are more comfortable with small talk with the customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2012

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Both are networks. Marketing is top priority.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2016

With one of the new free tools and a dose of sweat equity, you can create a website for almost nothing -- and you are on your way to success with ecommerce, your latest invention or personal services. With the advent of the Internet, the size and address of your office is irrelevant.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 6, 2013

Thursday is guest post day here at Duct Tape Marketing and today’s guest is Porter Gale – author of Your Network is Your Net Worth. How we meet and network has dramatically changed. Set a networking goal (i.e. What words should you build into your content to reinforce your networking goals and objectives?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Those at the other extreme don’t look up from the grindstone long enough to notice whether all their work is producing sweat equity or just sweat. Reserve the same names on the leading social networks and blogs. Some say the Internet is a metaphor for our brains. Both are networks. Marketing is top priority.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

How can I go about looking for a (very) good programmer willing to do this as sweat equity? In the process of gathering feedback, you’re beginning to develop a network of advisers and supporters. It’s common for a college student to do a sweat equity partnership with another college student.

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philipsmith.typepad.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Recently I was offered the opportunity to help a company and the opening gambit from the CEO was "well, we can only pay equity and in your own blog you say that's OK" Er, yes, but when it turns out that you have a staff of 15, all on salaries, a $3.5m The second example came along just this morning. A must read! startupcto

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

[link] Matt Merriam It’s been clear for sometime that the venture model, particularly early stage venture, is not the best approach for funding tech startups, but the hangover from the Internet days still lingers. The internet business is a game of scale (network externalities). the article here. Share and [.]

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Don’t exacerbate the issue by needing to figure out how to deal with a large equity deadweight on your hands (investors won’t like that the #2 stakeholder is absent, even estranged, from your company). So, the best way of dealing with this issue is to take a long, long vesting period for all major sweat equity founders.

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www.chubbybrain.com

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

The team over at Overto felt the lack of at least one full-time resource was the primary reason for their failure writing : We thought we’d able to run internet service after hours. By way of crude example, if your building innovative trading software for Wall Street, be where you customers are and where you can best network.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Internet Security. Startup internet projects often arrive slightly buggy at first and if the entrepreneur didn’t take the time to research the market in advance, the product can be dead on arrival. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 24, 2019

At the same time, technology, even the internet alone, were making it possible for better products than ever to get created from small companies. But assuming without a big budget it’s going to be more about sweat equity and putting in the time to create great content.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Many good freelancers are very busy right now and can be found through networking with friends or linked in. Im a UX and front end designer bootstrapping my own products with pure sweat equity at night but always looking for someone else to partner with(engineer/programmer)to bring these ideas life. Insightful. Thanks much.

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